All-night Restaurant Is Robbed By 3 Men

Digest

LANTANAPOMPANO BEACH — Three robbers were at large Sunday after taking an undetermined amount of cash from a Denny`s Restaurant, police said.

The robbers walked into the 24-hour restaurant at 3:21 a.m. Sunday. Two went to the restroom, while the third got the waitress` attention, pulled out a revolver and ordered a clerk to open the cash register, police reported.

After taking cash, the men fled on foot.A mini-bus carrying 24 migrant farm workers blew two tires and overturned on Florida`s Turnpike just south of Pompano Beach early Sunday, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

No serious injuries were reported. The driver, Lessage Esperance, 35, of Miami, and his passengers were treated and released at seven area hospitals, police said.

Police said the 1975 Dodge bus was heading north from Miami at 6:50 a.m. when its rear right tire went flat.Area police were still searching Sunday for an Ohio man who fled from a Florida Highway Patrol turnpike barracks after he was stopped in a car that troopers said contained marijuana residue and $77,000 in cash.

Troopers said Eflin Jones, 24, of Cincinatti, somehow eluded a police dragnet after he escaped and bolted into some woods. Jones, according to troopers, slipped out of a pair of handcuffs while officers were occupied with his companion, Clarence Royce.